Temperature
79 F at 12 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 72 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 79F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 88F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 72F
- 4 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 9 AM (66%).
Now. Clearwater Air Park is 78° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 72°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the east at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 75° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 79° all week. Rain is likely tomorrow (66%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:24 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 30 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Clearwater Air Park, Florida.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, St. Petersburg (FL), 5 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 22, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.5 miles Sat 6 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 / 34 | 4,108 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 155° / 335° | 3 mph head, on 16 | 5 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Clearwater Air Park (CLW), Clearwater Air Park's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
79 F at 12 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 72 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 72 F, the air 79% saturated; the humidity ran from 52% at 2 PM Thursday to 94% at 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
7 mph from the east at 12 AM; at its strongest 8 mph, 12 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.06 inHg at 12 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Clearwater Air Park: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Clearwater Air Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/76 ft/5 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Carrollwood 1NECWOF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.2 mi away/43 ft/28 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Clearwater 0.4 SSEFL-PN-103
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/69 ft/2 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sewage PlantTRPF1
At a cooperative observer's station/12.0 mi away/36 ft/35 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Sewage Plant (TRPF1), 12.0 miles from here, read 9 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.